Vongola Nono for one moment just stood there. His brain was very slowly analyzing what that young subordinate. The Vongola rings have been stolen "WHAT!?".
"Explain.", the CEDEF leader demanded.
"W-well, th-the Cer-Cervelo came and – and they…".
"We shall explain the situation!", two female voices said in tandem. Everyone got up in surprise as two identical women with masks rushed into the room, completely ignoring anyone but Nono. "However,", one of them continued "we will not allow anyone apart from the 9th generation family to listen to our report.".
Timotheo listened to them uncomfortably. "My external advisor will listen to your report as well. I accept no rejection.".
The Cervelo looked at each other for a brief before turning their attention back to Nono. "Understood.", the first one said. "To us, your orders are absolute, Ninth.".
Nono nodded and stood up. "Everyone, I shall now announce the end of this meeting. Please, do not let anyone outside this room be aware of our decision until we allow you to do so.". Many people wanted to protest, but it was the boss of the Vongola Family they were talking to so it wasn't that much of a good idea. As a result, in less than three minutes everyone had already made his way out of the headquarters.
Nono looked at the Cervelo. Even though he knew that those women were following his orders by letter, he did not like the whole issue about them. The Cervelo agency was a top secret organization which was found in an unknown time for unknown reasons and unknown purposes. That huge organization of those identical masked woman were cold-hearted, absolutely strict with their 'job', never showing a single emotion. They had too much power and too many secrets. And that was not good. But then again, the Vongola was exactly the same, wasn't it.
The first Cervelo started announcing their report. "Ninth. I regret to say that the Vongola Rings have been stolen from the secret location they were stored at.".
"They were replaced with illusionary rings for an unknown period. The illusions were so powerful, that it took over three months for us to realize that they were not authentic.", the second one continued.
"Any suspicion of when and who stole the Rings?", Nono asked, sweat dropping.
"Unfortunately, we do not posses those information yet. However, we are certain that the person who did the robbery is a powerful illusionist with knowledge of the location where the Rings were hidden and previous access to them.".
"How is that possible!?", Iemitsu snapped. "The living people who ever had access to the Rings were the 9th generation, me and YOU!".
"Watch your mouth. Us Cervelo would never provoke such actions.", the first Cervello said, slightly annoyed.
Nono decided to interfere. "I believe there are security cameras at the location where the rings were hidden.".
"Yes.", they said in tandem.
"Check all the footages from the last three years and let me know if you find anything. Until then, we won't provoke any actions.".
"Yes, Ninth. Should we let Xanxus-sama know?".
"No.".
"Understood. Farewell.", they said in union and left.
After they left, Nono threw himself on the chair exhausted. I hope nothing serious happens, he thought. But his intuition was screaming differently.
In the mean time, in a town some were in Japan, a strange man was walking around the playground looking for someone. Then he noticed the quite disturbing – for anyone else but him – scene of some elementary school boys bullying a brunet boy who couldn't be older than 5 years old. The man pulled of some lens from his pocket and observed the boys through them for a few seconds and smiled creepily. Nufufu. Looks like I found you.
The man approached the boys. They didn't notice him as he was behind their backs, but the man was always enjoying attention. "Nufufu. Looks like you boys decided to enjoy yourselves a little.". The bullies turned around and immediately backed off, creped out by the man sadistic smile and the evil glint in his heterochromatic eyes, one gray and one black with a Spade mark on it. "Would you allowed this boy and me to excuse ourselves?", the man said in his usual palace manners. But his tone was promising pain. "We have to discuss about something. So, if you don't mind…".
"WE'RE LEAVING!", the chief boy yelled while crying. The less than a second the bullies had vanished. The man whistled. He had seen many people running away in his life, but not THAT fast! Forgetting about them, he kneed on the ground and faced the little, cute boy that was crying in front of him.
"How are you, boy?", he asked.
"E-Eto… Erm… Tsu-kun is… is fine. Th-Thank you, sir…"
"There is no need to thank me. I'm glad I did! If you have problems with bullies again, you can tell me and I will help you.".
"You… You will?", boy asked with his shy voice.
"Of course. We can be friends!".
The boy's eyes brighten up and he looked straight to the man. "Really!?".
"Yes!".
"Eto… can Tsu-kun ask you something?".
The man was surprised by the sudden change of tone. "Sure, what?".
"What is your name?".
"Nufufu. I'm Daemon. Daemon Spade. And you?".
"…Sawada… Tsunayoshi…".
"We shall meet again, Tsunayoshi-kun.".
"Yes, Deamon-nii!".
Deamon left the park with a very,VERY satisfied expression on his face.